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... ravines, autumn leaves and traditional Japanese houses that I had imagined would scatter the country side. The speed train was fast, quiet, spacious seats (on a standard ticket) and left on time. On arrival to Hakone we walked twenty minutes up a winding hill to our hotel to discover there is a 100 yen ($1) bus that goes from our hotel to the bus station on a loop! We used that bus for all future trips. ...

Here the hot springs, erupting geysers and bubbling pools of boiling mud dominate a fascinating landscape. We take the Hakone rope way from Sounzan down to Togendai on lake Ashinoko. We take a boat journey around the lake which is a water filled volcanic crater with a circumference of 18K. We are now making our way to Tokyo by ...

... see Mount Fuji in the distance but the weather had closed in further at this point so no such luck. We did have a nice boat ride through the heart of Hakone though and we managed to see a couple of Torii gates on the banks amongst the colourful autumn foliage. The coach then took us back to the hotel at the end of what was quite a disappointing day. I expect it would have been beautiful under different circumstances but today the odds were certainly not in our ...

Today was my last day with Dad and we decided to go out of town to Kamakura on the coast to see the famous Big Buddha and temples in the ancient capital of Japan. After a more reasonable start to the day than yesterday going to the fish market we grabbed some breakfast and headed to Yokohama station to get the JR train to Kamakura. Getting of the train in Kamakura was strange as I had yet to see any other part of japan than the city. Rural life looked a lot ...

As planned i headed off to kamakura today, a place famed for its zen Buddhist shrines rather than the Shinto ones of nikko (although there were both). Similarly to yesterday I had a bit of trouble finding the right platform and had to rely once again on the helpfulness of Japanese passers by. Once I'd reached kamakura successfully my next task was to find a cash machine as I'd forgotten to get cash out at Tokyo. This sounds easy enough but the ...